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Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ame. It is an early example of the use of the Y cross in France. The place of the ancient benediction is marked by the Pax domini sit semper vobiscum of the petrine rite.Where this early rite prevailed there appears to have been no final blessing. This primitive usage, still universal in the eastern churches, appears to be the origin of the service nowtermed (in the west) Benediction ; in which one feature—and a very characteristic one—of the primitiveritual, is employed, as a ceremony, apart from the mass itself. Figure xii., in the diagram, exhibits the side view of the modern greek form of the vestment, and Fig.xiii.thefront view, the dotted lines showing the portion lost in the modern curtailment. In its present mutilated form,phenolion somewhat resembles, to an uncritical eye, the western cope. Possibly a misapprehension, arisingfrom this accidental resemblance, may have contributed to the adoption of the—purely choral—cope, as aeucharistic habit, by the Caroline divines.
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DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OFTHE CHASUBLE. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 117 When the custom of veiling the altar during mass had grown obsolete in the latin church,it became possible, and fitting, to make the moment of consecration the moment also ofadoration, and one action to suffice for both. Thus the elevation of oblation became also theelevation for worship. The change thus made in the ceremonial began at once to affect the shape of thechasuble on this side of the Alps. In Rome, however, where, in the normal position, the celebrant faced toward the people,no change in the form of the chasuble was required by the change of use, and we accord-ingly find that the ancient ample unmutilated vestment was retained in Rome for manycenturies after it had been abandoned, for a more or less curtailed planeta, in the trans-alpinecountries. For here, where the celebrant, as a rule, had his back toward the people, it was necessary,as a consequence of the alteration in

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